Joe Phelps | Keep government in this part of our business: At-risk kids

2:09 AM,
Nov. 7, 2013

Joe Phelps

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Joe Phelps
| Special to The Courer-Journal

Sunrise Children's Services, the Kentucky Baptist Convention's agency for at-risk children, receives $26 million of its $27 million budget, over 96 percent, from government funding, according to an Oct. 31 Courier Journal report about its ongoing legal battles.

We can disagree over the legal and theological questions this story poses. But first let's pause to note the enormous percentage of government funding required to underwrite this indispensable program of care for vulnerable children.

This is who we are as a nation. We work together, making concessions and adaptations as ...